Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sealed with or as if with a cork.
- adjective Tainted in flavor by an unsound cork.
- adjective Blackened by burnt cork.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stopped with a cork.
- Fitted with cork; having a cork heel or sole.
- Having acquired the taste of cork; corky: as, corked wine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cork . - adjective Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a
cork . - adjective Of (a bottle of) wine,
tainted bymould /mold in the cork.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin
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Examples
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Reign of Terroir: Ken Payton raises the question of whether corks alone are responsible for what we call corked wines.
NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2010
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It caused wine to become "corked" -- that is, to smell like a moldy pile of damp cardboard.
How to End a Bottleneck Jonathan Karl 2007
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Unlike the rosés, however, the men found a few reds and whites that were particularly unpleasant, not at the fault of their respective wineries but because they were "corked" - they simply had gone bad.
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Unlike the rosés, however, the men found a few reds and whites that were particularly unpleasant, not at the fault of their respective wineries but because they were "corked" - they simply had gone bad.
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Unlike the rosés, however, the men found a few reds and whites that were particularly unpleasant, not at the fault of their respective wineries but because they were "corked" - they simply had gone bad.
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Unlike the rosés, however, the men found a few reds and whites that were particularly unpleasant, not at the fault of their respective wineries but because they were "corked" - they simply had gone bad.
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GARY VAYNERCHUK, AUTHOR: Yes, I've got wine social network called corked and gourmet library, the food version of the wine site and Cinderella wine, one wine at midnight every day.
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GARY VAYNERCHUK, AUTHOR: Yes, I've got wine social network called corked and gourmet library, the food version of the wine site and Cinderella wine, one wine at midnight every day.
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I am reminded of the movie about CA wines and how it became accepted, something called corked, or bottled, cannot remember the name at this point.
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Without a word Augustus corked the whiskey bottle, retrieved his hat, and went outside.
Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997
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